8u40 is released

[Tobias Bley]

which future should it be? IoT?


> Am 04.03.2015 um 23:29 schrieb Felix Bembrick <felix.bembrick at gmail.com>:
> 
> JavaFX has a future but perhaps not the one we were all expecting or hoping for.
> 
> On 5 March 2015 at 09:18, Tobias Bley <tobi at ultramixer.com <mailto:tobi at ultramixer.com>> wrote:
> In the past there were 2 bad signs from Oracle concerning JavaFX: end of support for JavaFX on RaspPi and SceneBuilder…
> 
> So does have JavaFX a future?
> 
> Tobi
> 
> 
> > Am 04.03.2015 um 23:14 schrieb Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net <mailto:mike at plan99.net>>:
> >
> > That's great Johan, but ...... what does this mean, exactly? Is SB
> > effectively dead at this point? Short of some horrifically convoluted
> > corporate politics I can't understand why Oracle would develop an
> > application but not provide downloads of it. Does this mean SB won't be
> > upgraded past 8u40?
> >
> > I mean - I don't think it's unreasonable of me to be surprised by this, and
> > I thought I followed JFX development pretty closely. What's the story here?
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Johan Vos <johan at lodgon.com <mailto:johan at lodgon.com>> wrote:
> >
> >> Oracle stated that they won't release new binaries for SceneBuilder, but
> >> since the code is open-source and BSD licensed, third parties and the Java
> >> Community in general can create binaries based on the SceneBuilder sources.
> >> This is what we did at Gluon (http://gluonhq.com <http://gluonhq.com/>), and the result can be
> >> downloaded at http://gluonhq.com/products/downloads/ <http://gluonhq.com/products/downloads/>
> >> This download is based on the latest 8u40 source code in OpenJFX. It
> >> includes the 8u40 Controls (e.g. Spinner, Dialogs).
> >>
> >> Hope this is helpful.
> >>
> >> - Johan
> >>
> >> 2015-03-04 16:31 GMT+01:00 Mike Hearn <mike at plan99.net <mailto:mike at plan99.net>>:
> >>
> >>> Hi Kevin,
> >>>
> >>> Scene Builder source code is available in the OpenJFX repo under the BSD
> >>>> license, but separate binaries are no longer being released as of 8u40.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I'm a bit confused what this means.
> >>>
> >>> People who want to use Scene Builder are expected to compile it themselves
> >>> from now on? Does that really make sense? Presumably the idea here is that
> >>> SB will be integrated into IDEs and will no longer have any purpose as a
> >>> standalone app, but I'm not sure we're ready to go there yet - the last
> >>> time I tried the SB integration into IntelliJ it was extremely basic and
> >>> far below the experience of the dedicated app.
> >>>
> >>> As just one example, UI design benefits a lot from maximal screen space.
> >>> IDE embeddings often don't provide that.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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